| All terrible to the point where I'd rather watch with NO volume and subs rather than any dub. I've actually done this when subs were out of sync with audio |
| I consumed a few in the past, but nowadays almost never. |
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| Death Note, Cowboy Bebop and Digimon Data Squad are great imo. |
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| Dubs are all blasphemous trash |
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| I don't really mind them to be honest. |
| Cancerous. Will avoid at all cost. Wish they didn't exist. |
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| I don't understand all the hate toward English dubs. They are necessary, or indeed essential, for people who can't read, like small kids, the visually impaired, or the average American. |
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| English dubs are usually fairly well-done. I see nothing wrong with them. |
| I have approximately 1 terabyte of anime on my computer. |
| I love them just as much as the original. Depending on the type of show I'm watching, I switch between dub and sub. Sometimes, dub can even enhance my experience with a certain show if the sub doesn't click with me for some reason. For example, my all-time favorite anime is Re:Zero, but I don't think I could've liked it as much if I only watched the sub. No offense to the original audio, but I could immerse myself into the show and catch the emotions a whole lot more through the dub. People who say dub VAs have no emotion have likely never tried to listen to them properly in an unbiased way. Yeah, "dry" VAs exist, but not all of them are like that (not that the haters are ever going to listen). The only time I genuinely dislike a dub is when they change the original dialogue (note: not localisation, but changing the meaning and context altogether). |
SoumyaUkil73Jun 12, 2025 9:48 AM
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| My are opinion is that they're usually crap, and I only watch them when I can't find a subbed release. RErideD: Tokigoe no Derrida was the one time I've come across a dub that had decent VA selection. |
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| I'm German and love english Dubs. Not very fond of German Dubs tho. But I am glad they exist - if I hadn't watched the German Dub of Dragon Ball, Pokemon, Digimon and One Piece as a kid I probably wouldn't watch any Anime nowadays. |
| If you enjoy it, you do you. I don't think gatekeeping how people prefer to watch anime is a good thing. I watch some english dubbed like Hajime no Ippo right now which I think is done well. If I don't enjoy the dub I can just switch to subs. Easier to multi-task with english dubs. |
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| All English dub is a garbage for anime and non-american/not American oriented games. English voice actors just a bunch of amateurs plus very few people which are everywhere for 30 years. I am not surprised that foreign movies don't have English dub in USA because these movies will sound like teenager drama or nickelodeon cartoon despite genre or theme. |
FERASO said: i really love english DUBS in anime there are so many of it are cute and attractive! I'm sorry, what? "cute and attractive"? once again, someone joining the forum and immediatly starting to post the most brain-damaged posts imaginable. |
| Well depend on the dub, I already watch in different languages (8 in total) So, no hate on dub. |
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| I generally try to avoid dubs unless they are the only option. I am not a fan of poor localizations or censorship which is frequent in english dubs. |
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| i love them, it's actually my preferred way to watch anime (I love subs too but when the choice is offered, i'll pick dub.). I generally absorb information more efficiently if i hear it vs readng it. Unless a dub is just trash, but otherwise i stick with the dub. I also have a selection of Dub VA's i love hearing (Also, lovely Sakaki artwork.) |
| My waifu is the most wonderful waifu. Mai Valentine. We're freaking out that we're running out of time, but to do what? Should i stop and think of that? Is there something i could do to slow it down? Live in a day for once, instead of watch it sprinting by |
| Dubs have no originality. While some are really good most others fail to convey the actual message of the anime especially in certain slow paced shows. |
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| @FERASO let's say my cable had a different country channel those channels have anime (like the Star Chinese channel where I watch like Creamy Mami and Dragon Ball GT on Manderin) yeah even I don't understand but I did enjoy and learning a little on the language. |
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FERASO said: you're opinions on english DUBS Considering I can understand Nihongo fluently I really don't need to watch Anime dubbed in any other language. Though English Dubs are useful when watching Anime with Western friends during social gathering so people don't need to keep their eyes glued to a TV screen just to understand what the hell the characters are even saying. As far as English dubs go, they are far better than Japanese Anime dubbed in any other languages and most of the time English dubs are actually recorded in better recording studios than even the voice acting done in Japan. Where most English dubs are actually recorded to support 5.1 surround sound, which most Japanese Anime dubbed in Nihongo lacks. Japanese Anime dubbed in either Mandarin or Cantonese is sheer cringe.... Japanese Anime dubbed in Hangugeo is recorded usually in a decent studio but the actual voice acting is usually 3rd rate.... Japanese Anime dubbed in Hindi just sounds awful (it's mostly been done by some guy voicing over the characters speaking in Nihongo) Japanese Anime dubbed in either French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, or even Russian is beyond awful simply due to being dubbed in what seems like beyond third rate recording studios (it's usually just horrible sound quality that ruins the experience). Have never watched a Japanese Anime dubbed in either Thai, Polish, Arabic, or even Turkish but I have been told it's god awful... There reason why I think Japanese Anime dubbed in English are better than dubs in any other language besides Nihongo is because the West has turned dubbing Anime in English into it's own industry over the years. |
ColourWheelJun 11, 2025 8:23 AM
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| Aside from FLCL and Ghibli I've never watched anything dubbed. Sometimes I accidentally start a show before switching the language and have a panic attack when I hear the English lol |
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| I'm neutral. Modern Dubs aren't deserving of the bashing they get, but they're also not my preferred way of watching anime. Dubs sure are a thing that exist. |
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| I still bear scars from the horrible English dubs of the 80s. But they have gotten better over time. Still, I'd rather watch subs to glean the original emotion content provided by the VAs. Although I have to say, over many years, I have picked up some Japanese and found a lot of subs are real sketchy, too. So damned if you do. Damned iif you don't. |
Reply to valico
I watch dubs just because it gives me the opportunity to look away from the screen for a moment if I need to without any major consequence. But I used to watch dubs exclusively for a long time, so I don't really care either way.
this made me lol
Do you know Japanese well enough to discern the quality of dubs yourself, or are you just taking someone else's word for it and assuming they're correct?
Tirinchas said:
or the average American.
or the average American.
this made me lol
rohan121 said:
I am not a fan of poor localizations or censorship which is frequent in english dubs.
I am not a fan of poor localizations or censorship which is frequent in english dubs.
Do you know Japanese well enough to discern the quality of dubs yourself, or are you just taking someone else's word for it and assuming they're correct?
| @valico I know a lot of spoken Japanese, but I never learned Kanji. |
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| They sound off and unnatural to me, so I avoid them. |
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| @MikkelGronntun I got into anime via fansubs. Haven't watched a single English dub in my life. At most I tried trailers, which made my ears bleed, though. |
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| @MikkelGronntun I have watched dubs before and the voice acting is horrible there is also translation and localization issues |
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| tho i have only watched DBS and lazarus dubbed, i can confirm smaller prroduction dubs are genrally garbage from the clips i have seen |
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| I watched a handful of dubbed anime when I was just getting into it (they were easier to access, since they aired on TV, and dubbed VHS were generally cheaper to buy than subbed VHS), but I haven't voluntarily watched a dub since around 2002. I can't think of a reason for me to watch an altered version of an anime when I can just as easily watch the original version. Dubs were mostly pretty terrible when I was younger, though I do remember a handful of decent ones. I know they've improved overall in recent years. I had to watch a few with my mom when she was first getting into anime, since she wasn't used to subs (though she switched to subs about 5 years ago, and hasn't watched a dub since), and while I wouldn't call any of them good, some of them were fine. I wouldn't watch another one, but you could at least tell that effort was put into it. I have no problem with other people watching dubs. To each their own, especially when it comes to something as trivial as this. |
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| I tried watching something dubbed recently and the voices sounded terrible. Too old for the characters, |
| @MikkelGronntun I have watched dubs I am not assuming. All dubs are trash stop defending trash for example one piece which is in your favorites has the worst dub all the voice acting is horrible especially luffy he sounds like he has lung cancer if you watch one piece in dub your a psychopath. I have compared subs and dubs they are all trash I know you have to defend dubs because you have sunk cost fallacy but it's not too late to change |
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| They're pretty solid these days. A lot of people really over-exaggerate the things they don't like in them these days and act like the 4Kids style is still the norm when it really hasn't been for quite a long time. While I prefer watching in Japanese, I do think most dubs these days are solid and generally equivalent experiences to the original audio from what I have seen. |
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| They exist, I don't watch them and some of them are funny out of context - that's all from me. XD |
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| English dub nowadays are far better than what a certain vocal group of otakus would like to admit. While they have yet to surpass the work done by Japanese seiyuus, English dubs are no longer stuck in the dark ages of the 4Kids era. |
valico said: @LeonhartAugust A lot of dialogue and stuff does come off unnatural in English a lot of the time. I assume this is due to the difference in how the two languages differ culturally and more specifically how people communicate differently in their respective cultures. It also probably varies depending on how localized the scripts are. Another annoying thing about dubs is people uploading anime scenes on YT in dub. That, or AMVs. |
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| Dubs are my enemy and I hate dubs a lot. I watch Anime as it must be. |
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| I generally don't watch dub, because it always sounds worse than JP. |
"Nobody could laugh at someone who's trying their hardest" -Machio- |
| I am with everyone who said they are not that bad. people just hate on them as if the hate would bring them closer together. I enjoyed watching Dandandan, Sakamoto Days and Monster in English dubs. others were preferable in their original version. I usually start with subs, switch to the dubbed version and choose. I am not American and English is not my first language so please cut me some slack. anime watching still requires some brain power from me. |
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| I Love Dubs, I Hate Sub Fans Because They Will Judge You Just Because You Watch a Show a Language That is Not Japanese Like God Forbid Can Someone Watch It In The Language They Speak & I Don’t Want To Read Subtitles For 24 Minutes. |
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| Dubs are pretty cool depending on the material and any other factor, but thats just a rough mindset i have about them, i havent watched any dubbed material for a while |
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